Connecting Girls and Science

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"Howes' study reveals a method to make students' ideas central to teaching science. Her focus on creation of instructional situations to 'listen' to students' knowledge and perception of science provides a means to fuse feminist theories and pedagogies to enable 'Science for All' by making National Science Standards more female friendly." - Sue V. Rosser, Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Professor of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology "An engaging and important read: passionate, persuasive and practical. Elaine Howes shares snapshots of how a critical feminist teacher creates opportunities to hear students' perspectives. In the process she teaches us that active listening is a powerful tool for quality in both pedagogy and research. This book provides an exemplar of theory informing practice while practice constructs theory. It will change both." - Gaell Hildebrand, The University of Melbourne, Australia."